Veneto Lavoro was established by the Regional Law nr. 31/98, as a technical agency for the employment of the Veneto Region, with organizational, accounting, administrative and financial autonomy.

Since January 2000, VENETO LAVORO carries out functions and activities according to the guidelines directions of the Regional Plan for Employment and of the Regional Government, in coordination with the seven Provinces of the Region, the Committee of Institutional Coordination and the Regional Commission of social partners and representatives of the civil society.

Veneto Lavoro, as a technical-instrumental agency, supports the institutions and other organizations, featuring qualified services in terms of planning, management and evaluation of labour policies. The agency offers to the institutions and to society the tools and the know-how to study and promote active policies of labour, to monitor the trend of the labour market, to implement the labour information system of the Veneto and to develop innovative projects. Veneto Lavoro acts in a context of an enlarged community market in an effort of simplification and transparency towards citizens and authorities.

With the decentralization of the labour policies competences from the central government to the regional and local governments, Veneto Lavoro has developed its own strategic lines of regional action.Such strategic choices are based upon specific characteristics of the Veneto acquis that, in employment terms, presents many positive sides but still shows some weaknesses.

• Its priorities, in full accordance with the European Employment Strategy, remain: the management of issues related to a greater fluidification of the labour market, geographical mobility and the management of immigration flows;
•  problems related to the need for vocational training and qualification for workers, and the transition school-work;
• active participation of disabled people in the labour market;
• the need to increase the participation of women in the labour market;
• ensuring support for the inclusion of the disadvantaged at work

In addition to institutional activities, one of the most significant expressions of the development strategies of the agency concerns a series of innovative and integrated projects that work at local, national and international level. Such projects aim at identifying and anticipating practices and services (through benchmarking and pilot projects) that can be useful to the development of the Veneto model.

The organs of the agency are:

• The Director, who is in charge of the administration, management and direction
• the Board of Auditors, in charge of the economic and financial management.

The agency is organized in six offices

• Human Resources and General Affairs
• Budget and Administration
• Labour policies
• Observatory and Research
• Regional Labour Market Information System (RLMIS)
• Special projects